Newcastle International Sports Centre[McDonald Jones Stadium]
Sun Aug 20, 2:00pm [Foxtel/Kayo]
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Late Changes
Munro, Mamouzelos, D.Hawkins were trimmed 24 hours before the match. Chee Kam will wear #23 after the #15 was retired for the game after the passing of 2014 premkership winner Kyle Turner. Chee Kam is out. Moale is the concussion sub.
LOSS 10-29
South Sydney will need a last round win to secure a finals spot after a disappointing 29-10 defeat to the Knights in Newcastle. Billed as the match of the round and the most important of the season for both sides with a finals spot on the line, South Sydney showed plenty of intent in their opening two sets to put in attacking kicks. An errant second kick allowed the Knights to march downfield, and on the back of a penalty they took advantage of some poor defence to score through Greg Marzhew after six minutes. Another defensive lapse saw Kalyn Ponga bust through the line and find Marzhew for his second inside the opening 13 minutes to give Newcastle an 8-0 lead. They were able to stem the flow of points and get into the grind as a big crowd continued to get behind the home side through the middle stages of the first half. Just as Tallis Duncan looked to have scored in the 29th minute, an obstruction from Tevita Tatola denied the Rabbitohs the chance to post their first points of the afternoon. With time winding down in the first stanza, Souths were given a golden opportunity to attack after Duncan was hit high, but weren’t able to penetrate a staunch defensive line. Newcastle had no such issues, again going down the left-hand side and finding Marzhew to bring up a hat-trick and send the Knights into the sheds up 12-0. After a lacklustre first half, the Rabbitohs started the second in the best possible way, with Damien Cook taking the ball from the scrum at lock and taking on the defence, using his pace to bust the line and get his side on the board inside three minutes. Just as they looked destined to cut further into the margin just moments later, a desperation tackle from Bradman Best denied Taane Milne over the line. Despite getting back into the contest, Newcastle wrestled back the momentum with Daniel Saifiti getting on the end of a grubber to push the lead out to 18-4 with 23 minutes to play. Their lead was extended in controversial fashion, with a loose ball touching referee Grant Atkins in the in-goal, but the Bunker confirming a try to Adam Clune to make the score 22-4. Hope was starting to fade, but not before a strong burst from big Shaq Mitchell saw him overpower two defenders to score his first NRL try, and cut the margin back to 12 points with 13 minutes left. That hope was soon removed after Best got on the end of an error to run 60m and put the Knights back up by 18 with less than 10 minutes remaining. A late fieldgoal put the result beyond doubt. Frustrations boled over in the final few minutes with two incidents, first by Milne, who was placed on report for using his knees and with 2minutes on the clock, Latrell Mitchell sent to sin bin for using his elbow in a tackle.
After the match it was confirmed the try by Daniel Saifiti was scored off the 7th tackle. The three match officials were dropped during the week.
5 min 0-4
12 min 0-8
36 min 0-12
HT 0-12
42 min 4-12 D.Cook try L.Mitchell miss
56 min 4-18
60 min 4-22
65 min 10-22 S.Mitchell try L.Mitchell goal
69 min 10-28
77 min 10-29
D.Cook, S.Mitchell tries
L.Mitchell 1 from 2 goals
Weather Sunny (22C)
Crowd 29,018
Referee G.Atkins
Touch Judges D.Munro / P.Henderson
Video A.Gee
Scrums 2-0 (1H 1-0 )
Penalities 7-7 (1H 4-3 )
6-Again 0-2 (1H 0-1 )
78 min Mitchell, Latrell 10SB Using a Elbow in the tackle
Final Line Up -
Min Tac Pe 6A MT LA LB Rn DR m Er OL K TA T G/A FG 2FG
Flbk - 1 - Mitchell, Latrell 78 5 2 - 2 1 - 24 1 204 3 4 - - - 1/2 - - [0-78] 10SB OR MRC
LWng - 2 - Johnston, Alex 80 3 - - - - - 14 1 100 4 1 - - - - - -
LCnt - 3 - Tass, Isaiah 80 10 - 1 2 - - 14 - 106 - - - - - - - -
RCnt - 4 - Graham, Campbell 80 16 1 - 2 1 - 11 - 106 2 1 - - - - - -
RWng - 5 - Milne, Taane 80 3 1 - 2 - 2 14 - 158 2 1 - - - - - - OR
5/8 - 6 - Walker, Cody 80 20 - 1 4 - 1 13 1 90 - - 5 - - - - -
Half - 7 - Ilias, Lachlan 80 15 - - 7 - - 7 - 57 1 - 9 - - - - -
Prop - 8 - Arrow, Jai 30 23 - - 2 - - 7 - 59 - 1 - - - - - - [0-18,68-80]
Hook - 9 - Cook, Damien 80 48 1 - 2 1 1 11 7 125 - 1 1 - 1 - - -
Prop - 10 - Mitchell, Shaquai 29 16 1 - 3 - 1 4 - 27 - - - - 1 - - - [0-18,61-72]
LSRw - 12 - Host, Jacob 59 28 - - 3 - - 8 - 76 - - - - - - - - [0-28,49-80]
RSRw - 11 - Koloamatangi, Keaon 80 33 - - 1 - - 6 - 51 - - - - - - - -
Lock - 13 - Murray, Cameron 80 49 - - 7 1 - 17 - 105 2 1 - 1 - - - - (c)
Int - 14 - Duncan, Tallis 39 24 - - 4 - - 12 - 98 - 1 - - - - - - [18-49,72-80]
Int - 16 - Havili, Siliva 19 14 - - 4 - - 4 - 44 - - - - - - - - [49-68]
Int - 19 - Sele, Hame 31 21 - - - - - 11 - 94 - - - - - - - - [18-49]
Int - 21 - Tatola, Junior 33 19 1 - 3 - - 8 - 77 - - - - - - - - [28-61]
Conc - 17 - Moale, Davvy (DNP)
347 7 2 48 4 5 1585 14 11 15 1 2 1/2 - -
Completion Rate - 21/36 58%
Opposition Offloads - 9
Effective 1st Tackles
0 min 6m KO \\\\\
2 min 4m ///// Ilias kick \\\\\
3 min 94m ///// Ilias kick COFIG \ 44m \\\\ SS P(Walker) \\ (Nw TRY)
7 min 8m KO \\\\\
10 min 38m ///// Walker kick Nw-6TG SCR // SS P(SMitchell) \\\ (Nw TRY)
13 min 11m KO \\\\\
14 min 69m ///// Walker kick COF \\\\\
16 min 74m DO \\
17 min 96m Nw Err SS Err(Johnston) 95m \ SS-6A(Tass) \\\
19 min 0m Nw Err /// P ///// DCook kick CIG
20 min 19m Nw-ShDO \\\\\
22 min 19m ///// Walker kick SS Err(Johnston) \\\\\
24 min 26m /// SS Err(Graham) \\\\\
26 min 66m Nw Err /// Ilias kick OOF \\\\
28 min 36m Nw Err //// P /// SS NO TRY SS P(Tatola) 36m \\\\\
33 min 19m P ///// P /// SS Err(Graham) \\\\\
35 min 43m ///// SS Err(Johnston) \\\ (Nw TRY)
38 min 17m KO \\\\\
40 min 40m ///// SS NO TRY SS Err(Murray)
half time
41 min 3m / P ///// Ilias kick COF \\
42 min 0m Nw Err SCR TRY
45 min 45m ///// Ilias kick COF 18m \ SS P(Graham) \\\\\
48 min 31m Nw Err ///// Ilias kick SS NO TRY SS Err(Milne) \ \\\\\
50 min 13m Nw Err ///// Ilias kick COF \\\\\
52 min 93m ///// Ilias kick 79m \\ SS-6A(Tass) \\\\\
54 min 35m / //// Walker kick DIG \ \\\\\\ (Nw TRY) [7 tackle try]
57 min 60m KO 11m \\\\\ SS P(DCook) \\\\\
60 min 100m SS Err(LMitchell) (Nw TRY) [ball hit referee before try]
61 min 13m KO \\\\\
63 min 12m ///// Ilias kick COF 12m \\\\\
65 min 0m //// SS Err(Ilias) SS-CC P // TRY
68 min 7m ///// Walker kick \\\\\
69 min 100m /// SS Err(LMitchell) (Nw TRY)
71 min 36m Sh-KO \\\\\
73 min 13m /// SS Err(LMitchell) \\\\\
75 min 89m //// SS Err(LMitchell) 70m \\ SS P-OR(Milne) \\\\ (Nw FIELDGOAL)
77 min 35m Sh-KO / P // SS NO TRY SS Err(Murray) 22m SS P-10SB(LMitchell) \\\\\\
Average effective 1st tackle location
- 40.0m - for the whole match
- 40.6m - 1st half
- 39.5m - 2nd half
Other NRL Round 25 Matches
32-12 NQSt Cronulla b Nth Qld [Ch9/Foxtel/Kayo]
29-22 MtSm Warriors b Manly [Foxtel/Kayo]
34-12 WSS Syd Rstrs b Parramatta [Ch9/Foxtel/Kayo]
24-23 WSS Wests-Tig b Dolphins [Foxtel/Kayo]
40-14 Robi Penrith b Gold Coast [Foxtel/Kayo]
38-28 Woll Melbourne b St Geo-Ill [Ch9/Foxtel/Kayo]
36-24 Bruc Canberra b Canterbury [Ch9/Foxtel/Kayo]
BYE Brisbane
W D L B Diff Pt
PENRITH 17 - 5 3 +315 40
BRISBANE 17 - 5 3 +211 40
WARRIORS 15 - 7 3 +136 36
MELBOURNE 14 - 8 3 +137 34
CRONULLA 13 - 9 3 +130 32
CANBERRA 13 - 9 3 -108 32
NEWCASTLE 12 1 9 3 +129 31
SOUTHS 12 - 11 2 +73 28
Nth Qld 11 - 11 3 +12 28
Syd Rstrs 11 - 11 3 -62 28
Parramatta 11 - 12 2 -1 26
Manly 9 1 12 3 -54 25
Gold Coast 8 - 14 3 -109 22
Dolphins 8 - 14 3 -111 22
Canterbury 7 - 15 3 -309 20
St Geo-Ill 5 - 17 3 -165 16
Wests-Tig 4 - 18 3 -224 14
Judiciary News
Latrell Mitchell has been charged by the Match Review Committee with a grade two Dangerous Contact Charge in the 78th minute. It carries a 2 match suspension base charge. Mitchell has since taken the early guilty plea and the charge has been reduced to 1 match.
Reserve Grade - Knock-On Effect NSW Premiership Round 25
v Newcastle, Lyall Peacock Oval Toronto, Sat Aug 19 2:00pm
WIN 26-16
Late Changes - Alvarado and Skelton are out. Moale starts at prop, Chee Kam at second row, B.Gray and O'Neill on the bench. Gordon is the concussion sub. Working with a 12-point deficit at the break, the South Sydney Rabbitohs clawed their way back to win 26-16 against the Newcastle Knights in Round 25 of the Knock-On Effect NSW Cup. A strong start on both sides of the ball allowed South Sydney to apply some early pressure when Dean Hawkins forced a dropout off the back of a Knights’ error. Souths would waste no time opening things up, when Blake Taaffe swept across to the right and put Tyrone Munro over in the 6th minute to make the score 4-nil. With the Rabbitohs having all the momentum in the opening exchanges of the match, it would take a repeat set from a regathered charge down to get the Knights down the field. After regathering his own grubber for a second repeat set, Liam Sutton made sure his side took advantage of their first attacking opportunity when he put Dylan Lucas through a hole in the 15th minute and added the extras to take a 6-4 lead. A few minutes later, Knights winger Keanu Wainohu-Kemp slipped and was collected high, leading to a penalty. Finding themselves back in attacking territory, Newcastle shifted the ball out to the right, where fullback David Armstrong sliced through the left edge South Sydney. Armstrong sprinted 30 metres to score Newcastle’s second, extending their lead to 12-4 in the 21st minute, before Laitia Moceidreke found the line just 5 minutes after. The Knights headed into the sheds with a 12 point lead and all the momentum, and South Sydney, who were playing for a home final knew they had a lot of work to do in the second half. Thanks to back-to-back penalties in the opening set of the half, South Sydney marched downfield and put Newcastle under some early pressure. However, it would take 18 minutes of trading blows before the Rabbitohs began closing the gap, when Taaffe combined with Munro once again to make the score 16-8. The arm-wrestle continued, with South Sydney coming up with errors in their own half twice after points. Newcastle failed to be as clinical in attack as they were in the first half and were unable to extend their lead. After an obstruction penalty went against the Knights on halfway, the Rabbitohs were back on the attack. It was Davvy Moale who crashed through 3 defenders under the posts to bring his side back within 2 points, before making it a double just 4 minutes later when a Moceidreke error handed Souths another attacking chance. After being behind since the 15th minute of the contest, the South Sydney Rabbitohs now led 20-16 with only 10 minutes to play. A high shot on Taaffe in the 77th minute gave the Rabbitohs another penalty, where they proceeded to roll down the field through a Jaxson Rahme line break. On the following play, Daniel Suluka-Fifita crashed over under the goalposts for a third Souths’ try in the final 15 minutes, all but putting the contest to bed. The full time scoreline was Newcastle Knights 16, South Sydney Rabbitohs 26.
5 min 4-0 Munro try D.Hawkins miss
14 min 4-6
22 min 4-12
26 min 4-16
HT 4-16
58 min 8-16 Munro try D.Hawkins miss
67 min 14-16 Moale try D.Hawkins goal
70 min 20-16 Moale try D.Hawkins goal
78 min 26-16 Suluka-Fifita try D.Hawkins goal
Munro 2, Moale 2, Suluka-Fifita tries
D.Hawkins 3 from 5 goals
Weather Sunny (19C)
Referee N.Loveday
Touch Judges M.Ford / L.Nicholls
Scrums 4-4 (1H 1-1 )
Penalties 5-5 (1H 1-3 )
6-Again 1-1 (1H 0-1 )
Final Line Up -
Min Tac Pe 6A MT LA LB Rn DR m Er OL K TA T G/A FG 2FG
Flbk - 1 - Taaffe, Blake 80 5 - - 2 3 - 14 - 80 2 - 2 2 - - - -
LWng - 2 - Carr, Tom 80 1 - - 1 - 1 11 - 122 2 1 1 - - - - -
LCnt - 4 - Karapani, Josiah 80 7 - - 2 - - 13 1 151 - - - - - - - -
RCnt - 3 - Thompson, Izaac 80 11 - - 1 - - 13 - 127 1 1 - - - - - -
RWng - 5 - Munro, Tyrone 80 8 1 - - - 2 18 3 139 - - - - 2 - - -
5/8 - 6 - Teaupa, Dion 80 13 - - 1 - 2 18 - 109 1 1 1 - - - - -
Half - 7 - Hawkins, Dean 80 20 1 - 3 - - 15 - 60 - - 12 - - 3/5 - - (c)
Prop - 8 - Suluka-Fifita, Daniel 59 22 - - 2 - 1 19 - 164 - - - - 1 - - - [0-27,48-80]
Hook - 9 - Mamouzelos, Peter 70 35 1 1 2 2 - 9 8 51 - - - 2 - - - - [0-53,63-80]
Prop - 15 - Moale, Davvy 56 26 - - 2 - 2 14 - 103 - - - - 2 - - - [0-24,48-80]
LSRw - 22 - Chee Kam, Michael 80 22 2 - 3 - - 14 - 152 1 2 - - - - - - OR
RSRw - 11 - Lovett, Ben 63 36 - - 1 1 - 10 - 87 1 1 - - - - - - [0-63]
Lock - 13 - Rahme, Jaxson 45 22 - - - - 1 11 - 112 - - - - - - - - [0-29,64-80]
Int - 14 - Gardiner, Shannon 11 7 - - 1 - - 4 3 37 1 - - - - - - - [53-64]
Int - 10 - Gray, Brock 24 20 - - 2 - - 7 - 68 1 - - - - - - - [24-48]
Int - 12 - O'Neill, Ethan 53 21 - - 4 - - 11 - 96 - - - - - - - - [27-80]
Int - 21 - French, Matt 19 8 - - - - - 8 - 76 - - - - - - - - [29-48]
Conc - 16 - Gordon, Yileen (DNP)
284 5 1 27 6 9 1739 10 6 16 4 5 3/5 - -
Completion Rate - 29/37 78%
Opposition Offloads - 8
Other NSW Cup Round 25 Matches
32-12 MtSm Blacktown b Warriors
22-12 WSS Parramatta b Syd Rstrs
40-12 Belc Canberra b Canterbury [NSWRL TV] *
26-18 NSO Penrith b Norths
56-20 Lidc Newtown b Wests
BYE St Geo-Ill
W D L B Diff Pt
NORTHS 16 - 7 2 +185 36
SOUTHS 15 - 9 1 +56 32
WARRIORS 13 1 9 2 +132 31
CANBERRA 13 1 9 2 +56 31
BLACKTOWN 12 2 9 2 +95 30
Penrith 13 - 10 2 +92 30
Newtown 11 1 10 2 +95 29
Canterbury 11 3 9 2 +75 29
Parramatta 10 1 12 2 -213 25
St Geo-Ill 9 1 13 2 -25 23
Wests 7 2 13 2 -187 20
Newcastle 8 - 15 2 -195 20
Syd Rstrs 5 - 18 2 -166 14
NSWRL U21 Jersey Flegg - Round 24
v Newcastle, 12:00pm
LOSS 10-52
Late Changes - Kaho is out. Mercy starts at centre, Saldanha on the wing. Macey is the concussion sub. South Sydney started well in their final outing fr the season when a backline move saw Saldanha score out wide. However the Knights returned serve with three tries. A try to winger Drew Williams saw Souths claw back into the game at 10 to 18. Before two tries late in the half saw Newcastle pull away to commanding 30 to 10 lead at halftime. In a disappointing second half Newcastle scored four unanswered tries to win the match 52 to 10.
1 min 4-0 Saldanha try Ferguson miss
6 min 4-6
16 min 4-12
19 min 4-18
27 min 10-18 Drew Williams try Ferguson goal
31 min 10-24
34 min 10-30
HT 10-30
40 min 10-36
46 min 10-42
50 min 10-46
62 min 10-52
Saldanha, Drew Williams tries
Ferguson 1 from 2 goals
Weather Sunny (17C)
Referee L.Matheson
Touch Judges B.Hunt / L.Nicholls
Scrums 4-4 (1H 2-1 )
Penalties 7-6 (1H 2-2 )
6-Again 2-0 (1H 1-0 )
Final Line Up -
Min Tac Pe 6A MT LA LB Rn DR m Er OL K TA T G/A FG 2FG
Flbk - 1 - Towns, Dane 70 2 1 - 2 1 - 10 - 60 1 2 1 1 - - - -
LWng - 2 - Williams, Drew 70 1 - - 1 - 1 8 - 81 - - - - 1 - - -
LCnt - 4 - Ferguson, Ethan 70 2 1 - 2 - - 10 - 109 1 - - - - 1/2 - -
RCnt - 16 - Mercy, Drey 66 6 - - 4 - - 6 - 71 2 - - - - - - - [0-66]
RWng - 3 - Saldanha, Jude 70 3 - - 1 - 1 7 - 79 3 - - - 1 - - -
5/8 - 6 - Gray, Jye 70 12 - - 5 1 - 5 - 43 1 - 2 1 - - - -
Half - 7 - Hawkins, Brent 70 9 - - 3 - - - - - - - 5 - - - - -
Prop - 8 - Grossemy, Louis 46 27 1 - 1 - - 11 - 93 - 1 - - - - - - [0-24,48-70]
Hook - 9 - Cook, Romano 70 24 1 - 1 - - 3 - 18 - - 1 - - - - - (c)
Prop - 10 - Vailalo, Isaiah 32 19 - - 2 - - 5 - 57 - - - - - - - - [0-17,48-63]
LSRw - 12 - Kokkinos, James 70 24 - - 2 - - 6 - 44 - - - - - - - -
RSRw - 11 - Jinks, Samuel 41 8 - - 3 - - 6 - 64 1 - - - - - - - [0-41]
Lock - 13 - Tweedie, Cruise 55 23 - - 4 - - 6 - 67 - 1 - - - - - - [0-48,63-70]
Int - 18 - Herring, TJ 22 6 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [48-70]
Int - 15 - Vaka, Charles 31 14 - - 6 - - 3 - 22 - - - - - - - - [17-48]
Int - 14 - Donnelly, Archie 28 20 1 - - - - 7 - 56 - - - - - - - - [24-48,66-70]
Int - 17 - Petersen, Travis 29 8 - - 1 - - 1 - 8 - - - - - - - - [41-70]
Conc - 19 - Macey, Aaron (DNP)
208 6 - 38 2 2 880 9 4 9 2 2 1/2 - -
Completion Rate - 21/26 80%
Opposition Offloads - 12
Other U21 Round 24 Matches
48-6 Brok Manly b St Geo-Ill
32-10 Belc Canberra b Canterbury
36-20 Ring Parramatta b Syd Rstrs
34-10 Lidc Cronulla b Wests-Tig
24-20 Gsch Melbourne b Penrith
W D L B Diff Pt
SYD RSTRS 16 1 4 3 +252 39
CANTERBURY 14 1 6 3 +145 35
CRONULLA 13 - 7 3 +92 32
PENRITH 12 1 8 3 +67 31
MELBOURNE 11 - 10 3 -8 28
Parramatta 10 - 11 3 +12 26
Manly 9 - 12 3 -17 24
Canberra 9 - 12 3 -74 24
St Geo-Ill 8 - 13 2 -154 22
Souths 7 1 13 2 -187 21
Newcastle 7 - 14 3 -26 20
Wests-Tig 7 - 14 3 -90 20
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